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15 unusual facts about classical music


ARY Musik

In terms of format, ARY Musik caters to all age audiences, offering round-the-clock-music in all genres such as pop, rock, Bhangra, Classical, and folk.

Car Ensemble of the Netherlands

Although dissolved by Verhey in the fall of 1987, he gave one final performance with the Car Ensemble ("Nederlands Auto Ensemble") in June 1990 in Hilversum (the Netherlands) on request of Han Reiziger for his TV program on classical- and contemporary music, Reiziger in Muziek.

Chablis

Each year the Festival du Chablisien is held May to June in Chablis, featuring classical, jazz, and world music.

Classical Marimba League

Currently, up to five prizes are awarded, one in each style category (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionism & Contemporary).

Concert music

Classical music, the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times.

EatZi's

Classical music or tunes by crooners such as Frank Sinatra were permanently played in the markets, with an emphasis on the Four Seasons by Vivaldi.

Elizabeth Wagele

Music played a major role in her life as a friend and spiritual guide, especially Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, and other classical and jazz composers.

High fidelity

Classical music fans, who were opinion leaders in the audio market, quickly adopted LPs because, unlike with older records, most classical works would fit on a single LP.

Musical technique

Many of these components of music are found in difficult compositions, for example, a large tuple chromatic scale is a very common element to classical and romantic era compositions as part of the end of a phrase.

NWEAMO

In a healthy cultural milieu NWEAMO celebrates both classical and popular music.

PBA-FM

Each night specialist programs broadcast a specific genre of music, ranging from Classical, World, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Country, Progressive Rock and Rhythm & Blues.

The Consonant C

They pull their influences from various genres of music including classical, jazz, punk rock and folk.

The Joystrings

The Joystrings (originally credited as The Joy Strings) were a 1960s UK Christian music group led by classically-trained keyboard player and singer Joy Webb, an officer (now retired) in The Salvation Army.

Two Moors Festival

The Two Moors Festival is an annual classical music festival based in Devon and Somerset, England.

Virgin Veritas

The parent was formerly owned by Virgin Records's and was Virgin's classical label until acquisition by EMI, and then subsequent 2012 acquisition by Universal Music.


21st Century Boogie

Paddy Milner's music shows many influences ranging from pop-rock through to jazz, classical and British folk.

Aborym

The album continued to expand on the band's experimentation with Electronica, with Aborym citing influences from drum and bass, jungle, techno, classical, EBM and industrial.

Alessandro Carabelli

Alessandro Carabelli is a jazz pianist and composer with a background in the fields of classical music, jazz music, music history, harmony and composition and over fifteen years experience as a performer in international jazz events.

Alfreda Gerald

She has both a classical and R&B background and has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Warren Haynes, Wes King, Spectrum, The Gap Band, Deleon Richards, Michelle Malone, and Taliesin Orchestra.

American Kantorei

The Kantorei is dedicated to the performance of church music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Neoclassicism (music) periods.

Another Woman

It also uses classical music- Gymnopedie No. 3 by Erik Satie, and poetry- Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke, to serve its narrative, as earlier and later films such as Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Husbands and Wives.

Árpád Balázs

Árpád Balázs (born 1 October 1937 in Szentes, Hungary) is a classical music composer.

Bacolod Public Plaza

The gazebo is often used to house a bandstand and inscribed along the sides of the roof are the names of Western classical music composers Beethoven, Wagner, Haydn, and Mozart.

Brilliant Classics

Brilliant Classics is a Dutch classical music record label, based in Leeuwarden.

Carolina Brass

Carolina Brass performs a wide variety of music including Classical and Contemporary works, Medieval and Renaissance music, and pops programs encompassing Broadway, Jazz, Dixieland, Big Band, and other popular forms.

Cincinnati Public Radio Inc.

Cincinnati Public Radio, Inc. is the broadcast license holder for WGUC (90.9) and WVXU (91.7), two FM radio stations serving the Greater Cincinnati area with classical music, news, information, and entertainment programming.

Class Editori

Class Editori's other ventures include the news agency MF Dow Jones News (a joint venture with Dow Jones), the classical radio station Radio Classica, and a stake in Worldspace Italia (33%).

Frederic Chiu

Frederic Chiu (born 20 October 1964) is a Chinese American classical concert pianist.

Frederick Haggis

Over the next two decades under Haggis, the GCU moved to the forefront of the classical music scene in London, performing with major symphony orchestras and broadcasting frequently for the BBC.

Friday Night is Music Night

The programme regularly features many types of music from classical music, light music, film music, theatre music, songs from the musicals, opera and operetta.

Georgy Chicherin

As a young man, Chicherin became fascinated with history as well as classical music, especially Richard Wagner (and indirectly Friedrich Nietzsche), two passions which he would pursue throughout his life.

Grand Popo Football Club

Grand Popo Football Club are a French electronic music group of a DJ/book-loving television presenter/chat show host and producer/classically-trained pianist who studied at the National Conservatory in Paris, respectively.

House of Four Doors

The first, featuring a duet for acoustic guitar and flute, represents medieval minstrel music; the second, the harpsichord and cello duet, represents the Baroque style; the third, featuring mellotron and piano, represents classical music.

Junichi Masuda

Masuda's musical style draws from a number of sources, particularly classical music and the works of Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Kingfisher Sky

Ivar's progressive rock and traditional folk influences collided with Judith's classical conservatory background, and also her preference for soul and artists like Aretha Franklin.

Lee Hyla

Lee Hyla (born August 31, 1952, Niagara Falls, New York) is an American classical music composer who has been the recipient of the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Goddard Lieberson Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the St. Botolph Club Award, and the Rome Prize.

Lois Utz

Utz also collaborated as a lyricist with classical composer Richard Lane on a number of songs, including several for children.

Margaret Mercer

Margaret Mercer was for many years program director of WQXR in New York, the most listened-to classical music station in the United States, and at the time of her directorship under the ownership of The New York Times Company .

Marianne Davies

Marianne Davies (1743 or 1744, England - c. 1818) was an English musician, and the sister of the classical soprano Cecilia Davies.

Northwest Vocal Project

They perform a wide variety of styles within a cappella music, including traditional barbershop, jazz, Broadway, and light classical.

Prelude: The Best of Charlotte Church

Prelude: the Best of Charlotte Church is a 'best of' collection spanning the four classical music albums of the 16-year-old soprano Charlotte Church, released in 2002, and also available on DVD.

Rhodes piano

He dropped out of studying at the University of Southern California in 1929 to support his family through the great depression by full-time teaching, and designed a method that combined classical and jazz music.

Rimsky-Korsakoffee House

Named after Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the classical music-themed coffeehouse serves coffee and desserts, operating from the former living room of a reportedly haunted 1902 Craftsman-style house.

Skálmöld

The band's influences include such metal bands as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Slayer, Amon Amarth and Ensiferum, as well as Jón Leifs, the classical Icelandic composer.

Stephen Drury

Drury has performed and recorded a range of compositions by classical and contemporary composers including Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, Elliott Carter, and John Zorn.

Tavisupleba

The music of the anthem were adapted from two Georgian operas, "Abesalom da Eteri" (1918) and "Daisi" (1923), composed by Zakaria Paliashvili, the father of the Georgian classical music genre.

The Friendly Guide to Music

The Friendly Guide to Music is a 'beginner's guide' to classical music, voiced by English actor and presenter Tony Robinson.

Three Quartets

All compositions are by Corea who wanted to create an album of quartets like the many string quartets of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Impressionist periods; however, he would use jazz instrumentation.

Tone Åse

After completing teacher education, she studied classical vocals at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium and Tromsø Musikkonservatorium, and got a Masters degree on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (2007), where she is still working as an assistant professor.

Uncommon Ritual

Uncommon Ritual is the second album released by Sony Classical of string trios, following Appalachia Waltz, with unusual instrumentation and influences from bluegrass and folk music to create an Americana-style of traditional classical music.

We Are Him

The album features extensive contributions from various musicians, including the members of Akron/Family, Hungarian violinist Eszter Bálint, classical music composer Paul Cantelon, cellist Julia Kent, Bill Rieflin, and singer-songwriter Larkin Grimm.

WLS-FM

WENR-FM then began simulcasting WLS, and later adopted its own separate programming formats (which included classical and Broadway theatre show tunes) for part of the day.

WOBC-FM

WOBC airs an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming including new and old pop music, punk, folk, classical, blues, R&B, metal, hip-hop, jazz, electronic, radio dramas, talk shows, and news including the independently syndicated news program Democracy Now!.

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In 1903, author Rupert Hughes published The Musical Guide, an encyclopedia of classical music.